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Althought I understand these kind of announcements are useful in the past months it is the only thing it has been posted frequently. I believe this bends the nature that I've initially perceived of this Site.

The solution would be not to allow it! And offer a way for these companies or open source groups to advertise their products and solutions on the side bar.

I don't know if others share the same fealing but here are my two cents.

my first reaction to this post was that it crossed the line, but then FDD tool support is one of the most frequently asked questions I get. And so, those that are building such tools are providing a valuable service.

I've not needed to censor anything on this site yet (spammers excluded) and I am loathed to have to even consider it.

What I had thought about was adding another static page here (it would be a permanent link in the top banner) that is a Resources page. There I would add links to the FDD tools (free and commercial), relevant books and maybe some other related links (user groups for example).

If I did that, this gives the tool vendors a prominent place to be linked which should reduce the number of such posts at this site.

Also, in the future, the front page of this site will change (I hope) quite a bit and that planned change will re-orient the site a bit. I say all this because I think it will also help your concerns.

I think not posting anything is an over-reaction and this was not against the rules of the site as there are no such rules.

Obviously there's a balance between the frequency of such posts and the amount of content in such a post.

No matter where you strike that balance, you'll never please everybody.

FWIW - my $0.02 on the last one would have been a short sharp post that said there's been a significant pricing restructure plus new feature announcements. Check the details out at the following link...

"... those that are building such tools are providing a valuable service. "

We think alike on this. The resources page would be wonderful.

"I've not needed to censor anything on this site yet"

I realized the word "banned" was too strong. But then I mentioned that there could/should be a place for this information on the site. The resources sections is definitly the place for it IMHO, and what a wonderful place it can be.

FDD is getting more and more widely used. Tools are coming, and let them come so we can use them, great. But tools alone don't solve a thing. I just don't like to get marketing info in my face unless solicited. This site atracted me because of you and others that made FDD, and the kind of talk/chat forum like information flow beetween unkown people like me and wizards like you. I bet this was the same for others inspite of the fact that once you know a bit about FDD, a specialized software tool is obvious.

we are busy preparing for a major site rework. Some of the foundation work has already been done (i.e. all content has been converted to forum topics). As a part this work, a resources page will be added. More to come over the next few weeks...

I don't know if this is possible at the moment, but if this site provided an RSS/Atom based feed service would be very nice as I could read posts on the go (offline and online). This kind of service is currently widespread, so much that I rarely go "manually" to websites anymore unless something grabs my attention.

You can get an RSS feed for the current homepage by simply adding /rss.xml to the domain name. i.e. www.featuredrivendevelopment.com/rss.xml This feed will cover all forum topic content that gets added to the site. (i.e. comments posted to existing forum topics for example will not show up in the feed.